Bunking Classes…
Posted by anas on Sep 18, 2008 in Personal Rants | 8 commentsWhen was the first time I bunked a class? I thought for this about a good ten minutes. The answer wasn’t easy and went back to all my childhood days. As far as I recalled, it was in grade 3!! I can’t believe this!
My first ever bunk (as best as my memory serves) was a karate class in grade 3. I also remember the reasons pretty well. It was the karate instructor who thought he was playing with people of his own age while the kids were atleast three times younger than him. I remember him hitting a fellow classmate badly (but that kid was strong!) and I fled in the next class and ended up playing soccer. I had no idea that would be the first of many bunks in the coming years.
If I plot a a graph of the number of bunks versus the time of academic year, the maximum activity is by far concentrated in the years 2005-2007, the university days. Not only I sacrificed a P on the attendance roll but also risked falling below the minimum attendance level benchmark. I was fortunate enough to have people who fell well below that mark but still managed to squeeze their way out which gave me enough courage to take that risk. I was also fortunate of being in the ‘good books’ of most teachers and instructors which helped a lot. I could always argue that my academic performance despite being absent was never affected.
I also received an honor at my postal address warning that the current attendance situation may lead to my withdrawal from the college 
They always used that at NUST to threaten the parents!
Back to the bunking subject..Why does someone bunk a class? I had many reasons (not in any particular order):
1) Potential boring lecture
2) Pathetic teacher
3) Awesome weather
4) Pending assignments
5) Test prep (for the next class!)
6) Project work
7) Sleep, hunger or need for some caffeine 
Cricket match (sometimes)
And we usually ended up at Mc Donald’s (stadium road) after bunking. (yeah, we prepared there for tests and exams and did our assigns there)
I actually believe that bunking classes can enhance the performance of a student if he/she is really interested in studying. If not interested, then sitting in a class idly does no good either. A serious student will study his books more carefully after missing a class and be less dependent on the teachers.
On the same note, the minimum attendance limits should therefore not be placed because if a student is capable of missing classes and still able to do well in his exams then why force him to attend classes? Can someone please agree?!!!!
Note: ‘Bunking’ and ‘not attending’ may have been used interchangeably above – I’m not reviewing it!
who else is going to agree…a PNEC Student…Well performance should be the only way to judge some one…attendance in a “uni” shouldn’t be a mandiate of judging some one…
As for me i think the bunks i had made were only in PNEC and that too would be far less…i was afraid of getting below the lowest attendance mark and then pleading teachers for there courtesy. i wasn’t good at it
Btw Anas this bunking defies ur and or logic…..u bended it for ur use
. technically when u were below the 75% mark u should have to repeat that subject 
i just hate to guage (or to be guaged) by attendance. once u are in a uni, u are a grown up, a completely independent, responsible person. As long as you are doing what are supposed to be doing, i dont think there’s any harm in bunking class.
i bunked a lot of classes while I was in Pakistan where my attendance ‘had’ to be above the 75% mark while I hardly bunked any classes while in Manchester where there was no concept of marking attendance.
See, this is where I use organized crime!
Back in college, after I got my first warning for low attendance, I started to maintain a worksheet on my phone for exactly this purpose. I had put in formulas for credit hours and allowable ‘absentees’ from each class, and every day that I bunked a particular class, I just added a check to that sheet. Based on the time elapsed in the semester, it would tell me what percentage of my allowable bunked classes upto that point in time I had consumed. Very useful I tell you!
so u were actually ‘techinically advanced’ in terms of bunking classes
i ended up getting warning letters for most of the subjects…even my mom would actually get worried if she wouldnt get a warning letter for a particular subject 
@Absar: NO Way man!!!
Remember your first bunk, anyone??
@karachiwali: Hehe. Well it had its advantages
My attendance was always, always between 75-80% 
@Anas: Hahah! I consider that my greatest achievement at PNEC yar!
As for my first bunk.. yes I was a late-comer to the scene compared to you, my first bunk was during my O’Levels second year. We had a table tennis table right behind one of the classes (which was the one that I so happened to be bunking
). Oh I still remember our poor old mathematics instructor with his hand reaching out from the grille and saying to me and my friends “Aap log ander aa jaaien” with such innocence! 
hay i do remeber my first bunk… i wa in gr.6 ahahahahhahaha:D
i never even thought of bunking at school…i dont know why it just never occured to me. i bunked for the first time during my first year uni to play counter strike in the lab. after that, it was just a norm
if i wasnt in the class, there could only be two places where i could be found: in the lab playing counter strike or in the canteen playing table tennis. trust me, it wasnt a very good idea as i ended up spending most of the time studying while at home, even at weekends